Latter Day Histories Lecture with Elisa Pulido & Interview by Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Marriage and Divorce in the Latter Day Saint Tradition: Parallel Histories
7:00 PM - 8:30 PMThu
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For over nearly two hundred years temple marriage has been the crowning ritual in the lives of Latter-day Saints, one that signals an elevated station in the hierarchy of heaven for sealed couples. Despite the centrality of marriage throughout the history of the Latter-day Saints, LDS divorce has not been an uncommon phenomenon. Divorce occurred frequently during the Church's practice of polygamy and in the aftermath of the 1890 manifesto. In this lecture, Elisa Eastwood Pulido presents a brief history of evolving LDS doctrine and practice surrounding marriage and divorce, from 1840 to the mid twentieth century.